The concept, ‘con’ + ‘fluential’, is derived from two words, consciousness and influence. It involves authoring one’s actions or enacting one’s leadership through the consciousness of the influence of three constellations. The constellations are synchronicity or timing, clarity of intention and co-creativeness.
This is not an achievement to be reached but more like an ongoing way of reflecting on your particular ways of operating that is expansive - bringing learning and growth to one’s practice.
Within such a system – there are no assumptions concerning how one should behave or what ought to be done. Furthermore, leadership cannot be ordered or demanded, although its presence will always be noticed.
confluential leadership theory: presents a brief review of the theory of Confluential Leadership. It outlines the three constellations including Synchronicity (timing), clarity of intention, co-creativeness. The theory describes the foundation of the many programs and courses offered. These include the more academic and the short programs.
mask and the mirror - reporting on leadership a paper reflecting on a leadership evaluation where management and non management found new ways of expression. It describes how traditional reporting on research or consultancies, is an unsophisticated form of reflection usually viewed as an 'after the event' necessity. This paper shows how significant reporting can be a contribution to organisational transformation. The reporting on the evaluation of leadership in a middle sized industrial organisation was largely constituted of composite narratives of actual words and phrases of a cross section of the organisation.
This was presented as a paper at the Art of Management Conference, Banff 2008 and has been submitted for publication.
PhD Thesis Published 2006: An engagement with the phenomenology of leadership. A very readable account of the process of making sense of the phenomenon of leadership and the development of an original framework of leadership.
aesthetics of listening This paper explores the centrality of imagination in the dialogic process of telling a real life story. The provocation for this paper arose out of the author's experience of an older woman who relayed her dramatic life story for the first time. This paper was given at the Art of Management Conference in Krakow 2006.
and published as:
Jankelson, C. Story as Imagination - an aesthetics of listening in Aesthesis: International journal of art and aesthetics in management and organisational life, Vol 2 ONE; 2008, UK. aesthesis journal